A little while back I developed a simple image reducer so I thought I would share.

Shrink 1.0

Shrink is a very simple application that will allow you to reduce the size of a photo to either 640x480, 800x600 or 1024x768.

The default way to achieve this is to use ROX to view your photos, right mouse click on the photo that you wish to shrink then choose the size from the drop-down menu. There will be three options that display ShrinkTo640, ShrinkTo800 and ShrinkTo1024.

It is also possible to hold down the Ctrl key while you select your photos. This will
allow you to shrink many photos at once.

If you prefer to drag and drop, simply drag and drop the icons from the /usr/local/shrinkimage folder to the desktop. This will allow you to drop a photo on the icon to shrink the photo. Once again multiple photos can be done at the same time.

Your converted photos will be stored in /root/ShrunkenPhotos

This is not a new concept as others have done similar things before. I only discovered that after I had put this together.

Why did I bother?

For years I have been using Picasa which is a great piece of software. Unfortunately it is quite large and runs slowly on my computer. It also uses a lot of disk space and the more photos that are added the more space is used and the slower it becomes. The other problem is the large pup_save file you need unless you run a full installation or link it outside of the pup_save file. Of course Picasa does a lot more than view and reduce photos but that's what I mainly used it for. If you the take time to organise your photos in a logical directory structure it will be easy to find them.

Puppy has included many image viewers over the years and most of them have been excellent.

The main reason I want to shrink photos is to reduce the size when attaching to email.

Shrink uses little space and is fast. The main application included is aaphoto which does all the smart work, I take absolutely no credit for that. It does take a few seconds to reduce the photo so be patient and I think you will find this useful, if you don't, simply uninstall it.

I would be interested to know how. I like Mtpaint which I use all the time but it doesn't have a command line option that allows multiple files to be shrunk at once. mtPaint is an editor rather than a viewer and I only know how to view and shrink one file at a time. I like to be able to view the thumbnails in ROX and mark multiple files then reduce their size many at a time.

I even communicated with Dmitry Groshev, the maintainer of mtPaint, and he said it couldn't be done from the command line either. He was trying to compile part of the code for me but I'm not sure if he was successful.

In the meantime I found this method to be simple and effective.

I would be very happy to use mtPaint instead if you can explain how I can achieve a similar result with the same simplicity.

I would be interested to know how. I like Mtpaint which I use all the time but it doesn't have a command line option that allows multiple files to be shrunk at once. mtPaint is an editor rather than a viewer and I only know how to view and shrink one file at a time. I like to be able to view the thumbnails in ROX and mark multiple files then reduce their size many at a time.

I even communicated with Dmitry Groshev, the maintainer of mtPaint, and he said it couldn't be done from the command line either. He was trying to compile part of the code for me but I'm not sure if he was successful.

In the meantime I found this method to be simple and effective.

I would be very happy to use mtPaint instead if you can explain how I can achieve a similar result with the same simplicity.

Thanks

Smokey

Sorry, Smokey. I didn't read your post closely enough to notice that your program could reduce pictures in bulk.

i dont know if its ok or not to post in an old forum..
but...
this shrink is an amazing piece of software..
just wanted to convey its author a big thanks..

for the sake of discussion,...i had a little prob..
im a newbie on lupu525...
and i was not able to get drop down menu on right click for shrinking as u had suggested in rox ..
not tht its a must..even without it,your pet is wonderful...as is puppy!!

If you right click on your .jpeg file you should get a drop down menu which has "Open With." (I'm looking at it in lupu525 right now) Click on "Open With" and another menu will open up with the "ShrinkTo" options.

However, I am attaching my slight revision of this .pet which places the "ShrinkTo" options on the first right click menu, but only for .jpegs.

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